Microsoft Azure Certified for Applications

Building an application? Integrate with popular Azure services to improve your application features, lower your development costs and bring additional value to your customers.

By adopting single sign-on and one other Azure service below, you will be able to access the benefits of the program.

Azure Active Directory

Enterprise developers and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers can develop commercial cloud services or line of business applications that can be integrated with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to provide secure sign in and authorisation for their services.

Connectors

Connectors allow your app to work with Microsoft Flow, Logic Apps and PowerApps. This enables your customers to easily automate their business processes and create their own no-code line of business apps.

Microsoft Azure Certified for Platform Solutions

Building a platform solution? Want to publish and sell that solution on the Azure Marketplace and Azure Stack? Creating a solution built on the Azure platform allows your customers to realise increased value from Azure.

Azure SQL Database

Make building and maintaining applications easier and more productive. With built-in intelligence that learns app patterns and adapts to maximise performance, reliability and data protection, Azure SQL Database is a cloud database built for developers.

SQL Server

With SQL Server get the industry-leading performance and security of SQL Server on Windows, Linux and Docker containers. Build modern applications using any data, any language, any platform – on-premises and in the cloud.

System Center

Stay in control of your IT – across your environment and platforms – with System Center. Simplify the deployment, configuration, management and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualised software-defined datacenter, while increasing agility and performance.

Virtual machine

Getting your virtual machines certified helps you get published on the Azure Marketplace which makes it easy for your customers to search, test, purchase and deploy a wide range of applications and services in just a few clicks.

Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT

Being a part of the Microsoft Azure IoT partner ecosystem enables businesses to take advantage of the Internet of Things. Azure Certified for IoT partners have a unique opportunity to demonstrate IoT capabilities and market leadership, reach new customers and gain customer mindshare.

Partners receive a variety of benefits, which include: lead generation and ability for customers to directly contact you, being showcased on Microsoft Azure IoT websites, usage rights for Microsoft Azure Certified for badge and PR opportunities with Microsoft, such as press release and blog support.

US $6,000 Azure credit per enrollment year (on top of US $100 monthly Azure credit from the competency core) Unlimited Signature Cloud Support Eligibility for Azure consumption incentives Eligibility to deploy certain-on-premises, internal-use software on Microsoft Azure 5 Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscriptions (On top of five licenses from the competency core)

Increase product awareness and lead generation Participate in Microsoft sales organization events Establish a direct line with Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise team Access to Microsoft industry event sponsorship opportunities Assistance with landing partner case studies and publishing them on Microsoft.com as appropriate

Nominate your offer

Build your offer

Publish your offer

Submit your offer to Microsoft for validation. Then review a preview, approve it and go live.

Grow your offer

Grow as a partner, learn insights and invest in marketing campaigns to increase your offer’s success.

FAQ

For now, there is no cost to get your application certified through the Microsoft Azure Certified program.

The time to complete a certification depends on the application and integration required. Microsoft works to ensure partners get through the certification process as quickly as possible.

Your certification will last as long as your solution is updated and compatible with Microsoft Azure platform and services.

Yes, you need to certify your virtual machines before it can get published and sold commercially through the Azure Marketplace.

The application or service categories available on Azure Marketplace are virtual machines, virtual machine extensions, multiple virtual machines, Azure Active Directory, web apps, API apps and Microsoft Dynamics apps. Application categories not covered under the Microsoft Azure Certified programme and their publication paths are as follows:

Web apps: Integrate with Azure Web Apps to provide a simple way for users to explore, discover, install and deploy your web app on Azure and share your web app with millions of Azure users worldwide. View program details

Business solutions for Microsoft Dynamics: Discover, explore and deploy easy-to-use, cloud-based business solutions for your industry or market directly from Azure Marketplace. View program details

In general, your application or service must be relevant to developers and IT pros building applications and running their business on Azure. In addition, you must meet the following business and technical requirements.

Business requirements:

Your company (or its subsidiary) must be located in a sell-from country supported by Azure Marketplace.

Technical Requirements:

You must test and prepare your application to run well in Azure Virtual Machines.

Your application must be packaged in a VHD, as described in the Azure documentation for Windows Server and Linux.

Your application’s licensing system must work with the Azure Marketplace hourly billing model or BYOL model, as applicable.

Your application or service must pass validation tests confirming that it runs well in the Azure environment and delivers a high-quality customer experience.

Your customers can expect that:

Your application or service has been vetted for readiness and compatibility with Microsoft Azure or Microsoft Azure services through testing and certification.

You (the publisher) will provide customer support.

They will be able to find your solution on Azure Marketplace or other Microsoft Application Catalogs.

No, you do not need a membership to apply for the certification. You do need a membership to be eligible for a silver Cloud Platform competency which is offered to you once your application is certified.